Cl. 1 .] FUNGI, ALG^E. 63 



CLASS 1. ACOTYLEDONES. 



Embryo destitute of Cotyledons, as well as of a 

 separate Albumen. . 



Orel 1. FUNGI. Tab. 9. fig. 129-133. "Either 

 parasitical, or springing from the ground naked, or 

 inclosed in a splitting Volvo, (53 :7). Substance in 

 some corky, or totighly coated ; in others softer, 

 fleshy, or mucilaginous. Some are simple, others 

 branched ; some spherical ; several have a Head, Pi- 

 leus, either stalked or sessile, sometimes orbicular and 

 peltate; sometimes semi-orbicular, and laterally at- 

 tached. Leaves and Flowers are wanting; but there 

 is in the place of Anthers (58) a scattered, external 

 or internal, powder. The place of Pistils (59) is sup- 

 plied by organs variously constructed, resembling thin 

 plates, wrinkles, furrows, pores, tubes, scales, fibres, 

 &e. ; in which, in some manner or other, are lodged 

 bodies, that germinate in the earth like Seeds (6'i\ or 

 take root like creeping shoots, and reproduce the 

 plant. The corky Fungi are perennial, and often pa- 

 rasitical; the rest either parasitical or terrestrial, short- 

 lived, prone to putrefaction." 



Such is the substance of Jussieu's character of this 

 Order. We have no doubt that Fungi are propa- 

 gated by real Seeds, though increased also, like other 

 plants, by their fibrous Radicles (7). 



Ord. 2. ALG.E. Tab. 8, 9- fig. 116-128. "Various 

 in habit, texture, substance, and organs of propagation. 



